Best Supergiant

Polaris is a bright star located in the constellation Ursa Minor. It’s notable as the current North Star due to its position near the celestial pole and its classification as a Cepheid variable. This means it pulsates with varying brightness, making it valuable for astronomers studying stellar dista...

Rigel is a brilliant blue supergiant star located within the constellation Orion. It’s notable for its extreme luminosity, making it readily visible and historically important for navigation. As one of the brightest stars in our sky, Rigel is observed by astronomers studying stellar evolution and th...

Canopus is a massive, white-yellow supergiant star located in the Carina constellation. It’s notable for being the second brightest celestial object visible from Earth. Historically, navigators utilized Canopus as a key navigational reference point, particularly for spacecraft due to its consistent...

V838 Monocerotis is a red variable star located in the constellation Monoceros. In January 2002, it experienced a major outburst, temporarily becoming one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way. This event produced a striking phenomenon known as a light echo, where the flash of light illuminate...

Hades: Original Soundtrack is the 2020 score composed and produced by Darren Korb for the roguelike video game developed by Supergiant Games. The music uses acoustic guitar, hammered dulcimer, and other instruments associated with Mediterranean and Balkan traditions, combined with rock and electroni...

Alnitak is a multiple star system positioned as the easternmost star in Orion's Belt. The system is dominated by Alnitak Aa, a hot, blue O-type supergiant, and includes at least two smaller companion stars. It is located approximately 800 light-years from Earth and is highly luminous in the night sk...

Naos, formally designated Zeta Puppis, is a blue O-type supergiant star located in the constellation Puppis. It is one of the hottest, most luminous, and most massive stars visible to the naked eye, possessing a surface temperature of approximately 42,000 Kelvin. The star is situated roughly 1,000 l...

The Transistor Original Soundtrack is the score to the 2014 sci-fi action role-playing game developed by Supergiant Games. Composed and produced by Darren Korb, it features vocal performances by Ashley Barrett, continuing their collaboration from the studio's previous title, Bastion. The music incor...

The Bastion Original Soundtrack is the 2011 music album composed and produced by Darren Korb for the action role-playing game developed by Supergiant Games. Characterized by what Korb termed an "acoustic frontier trip-hop" style, the score blends acoustic guitar, strings, and electronic percussion t...

W Virginis is the prototype of the W Virginis variables, a class of pulsating variable stars also known as Type II Cepheids. These stars are Population II objects, meaning they are older and more metal-poor than classical Cepheid variables. W Virginis stars follow a period-luminosity relationship di...

Pyre Original Soundtrack is Darren Korb's 2017 score for Supergiant's party-based fantasy game, built around ritual songs and character themes.

HD 93129A is an extremely massive and luminous O-type supergiant star located within the Carina Nebula, specifically in the Trumpler 14 star cluster. Estimated to exceed 100 solar masses, it is one of the most massive stars identified in the Milky Way and radiates millions of times more energy than...

Epsilon Aurigae is an eclipsing binary star system situated in the northern constellation of Auriga. The system is composed of an F-type supergiant primary star and a secondary component that consists of a large, opaque disk of dust and gas surrounding a smaller, hotter star. Astronomers have studie...

Pyre is a single-player action RPG developed by Supergiant Games. The game features a unique combat system centered around summoning and controlling spectral “manes” to battle enemies. Its notable design emphasizes strategic team composition and tactical positioning. Pyre is primarily for players wh...

Mirfak (Alpha Persei) is an F-type yellow-white supergiant roughly 590 light-years from Earth and the brightest star in the constellation Perseus, with an apparent magnitude of about 1.8. It serves as the gravitational anchor of the Alpha Persei Moving Cluster (Melotte 20), an open cluster of stars...

Enif, designated Epsilon Pegasi, is an orange K-type supergiant in the constellation Pegasus, approximately 690 light-years from Earth. Its traditional name derives from an Arabic word for nose, reflecting its position at the muzzle of the winged horse in constellation figures. With an apparent magn...

Wezen, designated Delta Canis Majoris, is a yellow-white F-type supergiant in the constellation Canis Major. It lies roughly 1,600 light-years from Earth and appears as a second-magnitude star despite that substantial distance, indicating a luminosity tens of thousands of times greater than the Sun'...

Aludra, designated Eta Canis Majoris, is a blue supergiant star of spectral type B5 located in the constellation Canis Major. Positioned roughly 3,000 light-years from Earth, it ranks among the most intrinsically luminous stars in the night sky, emitting hundreds of thousands of times more light tha...

Sadalsuud, formally designated Beta Aquarii, is the brightest star in the constellation Aquarius. It is a yellow supergiant located approximately 540 light-years from Earth, and it marks the central position among several optically nearby stars forming an asterism. The star's traditional name is der...

Sadalmelik, designated Alpha Aquarii, is a yellow supergiant star positioned along the celestial equator in the constellation of Aquarius. The star's traditional name is derived from an Arabic phrase translating to 'the lucky stars of the king,' a reference to its historical significance in ancient...

Tureis, formally designated Rho Puppis, is a pulsating variable star located in the southern constellation of Puppis. It is categorized as a Delta Scuti variable, meaning its brightness fluctuates slightly over a period of a few hours due to radial pulsations. The star is an F-type bright giant situ...

π Scorpii (Fang) is a triple star system in Scorpius, roughly 590 light-years from Earth, whose name originates from the Chinese lunar mansion called the Room.

Xamidimura, designated as Mu¹ Scorpii, is a binary star system located in the southern constellation of Scorpius. It consists of two hot, blue B-type stars orbiting so closely that they appear as a single point of light, detectable primarily as a spectroscopic binary. The star's official name was fo...